Maria Pauline Lumowa Charged With State Loss Of IDR 1.2 Trillion

Maria Pauline Lumowan in the inaugural trial (Rizky Adytia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The defendant in the case of alleged burglary to the Kebayoran Baru branch of Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) using a fictitious Letter of Credit (L / C) mode, Maria Pauline Lumowa is undergoing the first trial. Maria was charged with causing state financial losses of more than IDR 1.2 trillion.

Maria made a fictitious L / C application when she was the owner of PT Sagared Team and Gramarindo Group. In which, the two companies oversee 7 subsidiaries led by 9 people including Adrian Herling Waworuntu.

In early 2020 Maria, made a business relationship and asked Adrian Herling Waworuntu as an investment consultant in her company. Then, in August 2020, Maria took Ollah Abdullah Agam and the BNI 46 Kebayoran Baru Customer Service Manager, Edy Santoro to apply for credit.

The plan is for the credit application to be allocated to one of the PT Sagared Team business groups. However, the request was rejected.

This rejection resulted in a loss of Bank BNI 46 Kebayoran Baru branches amounting to 9.8 million United States (US) dollars due to some unpaid L / C disbursements. So, Edy asked Maria to cover the loss.

To cover the loss, Maria decided to buy seven companies belonging to the Gramarindo Group. Then, the positions of managing director in each company were filled by Maria's trusted people.

"The defendant then asked the directors of these companies to apply for L / C disbursement by attaching a fictitious export document to BNI 46 Kebayoran Baru branch, South Jakarta, so that it seemed as if the company was carrying out export activities," said public prosecutor (JPU) Sumidi. at the trial at the Corruption Court, Central Jakarta, Wednesday, January 13.

With this order, the seven companies then opened a checking account and submitted a fundraising request by submitting an L / C with documents in the form of a fictitious export bill.

The submission was also approved by Bank BNI 46 without checking the documents. In fact, the party who issued the document was not a Bank BNI 46 correspondent.

"BNI 46 Kebayoran Baru, without checking the banks that issued the L / C, namely Roos Bank Switzerland, Middle East Bank Kenya, Wall Street Banking Corp Ltd, and Dubai Bank Kenya Ltd," said Sumidi.

Furthermore, Maria also proposed other companies to withdraw L / C with a fictitious export document attached. Whereas the disbursement of the L / C with fictitious documents on behalf of the companies controlled by Maria had not yet been made payments totaling US $ 82.8 million and Euro 54 million.

"Which, if equivalent in rupiah, is at least equivalent to Rp1,214,468,422,331.43," said Sumidi.

With this sequence, the prosecutor considered Maria to have committed the criminal acts listed in Article 2 Paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of the Law on Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code. subsidiary of Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of the Law on Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

Maria was also charged with Article 3 Paragraph (1) letter a of the Law on the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering, subsidiary to Article 6 Paragraph (1) letters a and b of the Law on Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering.